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lank
Slender or thin; not well filled out; not plump; shrunken; lean.
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The cognomen of Crane was not inapplicable to his person. He was tall, but exceedingly lank, with narrow shoulders, long arms and legs, hands that dangled a mile out of his sleeves, feet that might have served for shovels, and his whole frame most loosely hung together.
[…] while I stood in the dark, a hand touched mine, lank fingers came feeling over my face, and I was sensible of a peculiar unpleasant odour.
Blacks in the fields, lank and stooped, their fingers spiderlike among the bolls of cotton.
(obsolete) Meagre, paltry, scant in quantity.
(of hair) Straight and flat; thin and limp. (Often associated with being greasy.)
(obsolete) Languid; drooping, slack.
(rare) To become lank.
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